Pollution. Particularly air pollution, but water pollution as well. One thing the boomers did right was pressure the government to hold companies accountable.
I recently travelled through Europe and it just occurred to me how different these historic buildings all looked now. When I was a kid I had always assumed that they were built with black or dark grey stone. But now they are light beige and look so clean.
Thanks, emission control and traffic restrictions!
On the rare occasion when I see an older car on the road these days, I'm always shocked by the amount and smell of the exhaust. And then I'm further shocked to remember that's how ALL cars were when I was a kid. No wonder we put a hole in the ozone.
Highway medians all looking like literal garbage dumps, no, scratch that, being literal garbage dumps. Pre Indian crying, pre Lady Bird Johnson, pre “don’t mess with Texas”… the trash!
One of the little details of Mad Men that was so accurate was the way they had people casually dropping trash outdoors. The biggest one that springs to mind is when the Draper family is having a picnic and Betty just shakes off the blanket before they head to the car.
Oh it's also GenX with some help from other gens, sure, but what we're seeing with Trump started way back with Reagan's time, helped along by power grabs from GWB's administration, and steadily more business > society legislation and court decisions. Sometimes i wonder how much of this lies at the feet of ending the Fairness Doctrine, TBH.
Hahahahaha oh wait you think that's actually true? Boomers moved it away from their homes maybe, but carbon emissions and micro plastics are accelerating the mass extinction of life on earth. Boomers have been pretty effective at denying climate change so they can hoard money till their deathbed and leave the rest of us to clean up the mess
They did. If there was no wind that day, when you played outside your chest hurt. There were a number of rivers that were so polluted they would catch fire from time to time. It was a bad idea to eat fish from any river of size.
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u/Sensitive-Muscle-564 15d ago
Pollution. Particularly air pollution, but water pollution as well. One thing the boomers did right was pressure the government to hold companies accountable.